{"id":1190,"date":"2017-04-01T17:12:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T01:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stol750project.info\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2017-04-03T17:21:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T01:21:13","slug":"pilot-wing-root-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/?p=1190","title":{"rendered":"Pilot Wing Root Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day and time to do the pilot side. This one went more quickly thanks to the experience of the day before.An l-angle was cut and installed on the rib<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/SWLgfC\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2939\/33437565420_3e129cd76a_c.jpg?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ready to rivet pilot root skin\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and a new skin cut and drilled<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/ShV7e4\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2891\/33009264213_d628536ce1_c.jpg?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Drilling Pilot root skin\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I totally forgot not to drill the rib holes but only drilled a handful before Allen pointed it out. Here&#8217;s the final install (I love how shiny this new aluminium is).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/Ttb66Y\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2810\/33781708846_1cff002a60_c.jpg?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pilot root skin installed\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a view with both new skins on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/TwMUkD\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2938\/33822646155_0baf3f4822_c.jpg?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Both root skins installed\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That was about it for today but while evaluating what is left to do and in what order, we took a look at the rudder cables which were a bit loose. A little manipulating of the rudder and turnbuckles and tension was restored to both cables. I measured it with the meter<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/TkmpGt\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2911\/33693190551_fe91532e47_c.jpg?resize=600%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Measuring rudder cable tension\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re looking for 30 +\/- 5 so we&#8217;re good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day and time to do the pilot side. This one went more quickly thanks to the experience of the day before.An l-angle was cut and installed on the rib and a new skin cut and drilled I totally forgot&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/?p=1190\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finishing","category-fuselage","category-wings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p320wU-jc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}